Scientific communication: Getting started writing & speaking – Next edition: Córdoba, September, 29-30 2022

Biomedical professionals need to be able to communicate effectively in writing and in speaking. However, most professionals receive little specific training in communication skills.

Science is an international endeavor, and English is the lingua franca of the international scientific community. Although Spanish biomedical professionals invest heavily in learning English, they often lack the skills in scientific English that are necessary to express their ideas clearly.

This training seminar aims to help students begin to improve their scientific English. We introduce a few basic concepts underlying effective oral and written communication in science and give students the opportunity to put the theory into practice in a relaxed atmosphere of open discussion and feedback. Finally, we discuss resources and approaches to help students continue to improve on their own after the course.

Professors

John Giba
Born and educated in the United States (magna cum laude in Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 1984), John has been teaching English in Spain since 1985. He helps scientists and health professionals prepare manuscripts for international journals and oral presentations for conferences. He has participated in several biomedical English courses. He teaches a module in scientific English for various master’s programs in the medical schools of the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has co-written three books on scientific communication: Surgical English (2010), Medical and Healthcare English (2010), and Preparing and delivering scientific presentations (2011).

Ana Paola López
For the past 13 years Ana Paola has advised governments -local and national level- and international organizations on sustainability, climate resilience, problem-framing, and social innovation. She has lived in 6 countries and worked for Barcelona City Council -managing the City’s innovation lab-, the World Bank, and the Federal Government of Mexico. She has co-designed and implemented open innovation methodologies to tackle urban challenges. She has had multiple speaking engagements and workshop facilitation experience at international forums such as the UN, the European Commission, the World Urban Forum and the Smart City Expo. She is Head of Operations and co-facilitator at Performing Ideas.

Contents

1. Scientific Writing:
– Precision
– Simplicity and concision
– Coherence and flow

2. Speaking in Science:
– Introducing yourself
– Verbal and non-verbal language
– Numbers, figures and graphs

3. Resources for scientific English and feedback

General information

• The course is taught in English and Spanish.
• It is recommended that participants have an intermediate level of English.
• The duration of the course will be two full days, with morning and afternoon sessions (from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.), approximately 16 hours in total.
• The number of participants is limited to 30 people per edition.
• Registration for the seminar implies the active participation of the attendees and commits them to attend the entire course.
• The registration fee is 100 euros (with 50% of discount to IMIBIC members. IMIBIC IMIBIC will return 50% of this special enrollment to those members of the center who have attended the entire course).
• Both accommodation and travel must be borne by the participants.
• A certificate of attendance will be given to each of the participants.

Edition

• Córdoba, September 29-30 2022

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